Synonyms of intuited

intuited

verb

past tense of intuit

as in understood

to have a clear idea of

an imaginative genius like Shakespeare could intuit the thoughts, feelings, and motives of a vast array of characters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• understood
• knew
• deciphered
• recognized
• comprehended
• grasped
• saw
• appreciated
• discerned
• sensed
• realized
• got
• perceived
• conceived
• apprehended
• assimilated
• made
• decoded
• beheld
• dug
• grokked
• seized
• cognized
• twigged
• registered
• made out
• tumbled (to)
• caught on (to)
• caught
• picked up on
• savvied
• absorbed
• compassed
• digested
• cottoned (to or on to)
• fathomed
• penetrated
• took in
• pierced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missed
• misunderstood
• misinterpreted
• misread
• misconstrued
• mistook
• misconceived
• misapprehended
• misperceived

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of intuited

Is there a chance the markets collectively intuited that this could prove to be the last-ever oil shock? — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 June 2026

The Knicks understood when to hold back and intuited when to become aggressive. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 26 May 2026

And yet, as a prophet of capitalism, in the regimented ballet of the pin-makers Smith intuited Henry Ford’s assembly line, of how the entire world would become subservient to manufacturing and finance. — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026

British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process. — Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026

Advertisement The leaders of the communist and Nazi parties—both hostile to Germany’s democratic institutions, albeit for different reasons—understood, or intuited, that political violence could erode democracy itself. — Time, 23 Oct. 2025

Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington. — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025

There’s deeper meaning to some of the other imagery in the music video than might first be intuited by viewers. — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025

Or the way his hips flip to the exact angle his brain intuited. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025